Career Advising & Exploration
Please schedule an appointment with one of our career advisors any time through Navigate, Butler’s online advising portal. All undergraduate students have a Navigate account accessible with their Butler username/password.
Graduate students and alumni can request appointments via Handshake, Butler’s online job and internship portal. Graduate students can login with their Butler credentials, while alumni can request to join Butler’s network on the Handshake login page.
CaPS advisors can help you build your resume and cover letter, practice your interviewing skills, help you explore your options, network with professionals, and search for internships and full time opportunities.
Career Exploration
- If our advisors feel it’d be helpful for you, we administer the CliftonStrengths (formerly StrengthsQuest), Strong Interest Inventory, and Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) assessments.
- These appraisals illustrate your strengths and interests, and can aid in choosing (or changing) a major, graduate school, or career path.
- To request taking an assessment, please schedule an appointment here.
- In the “Career Discovery and Exploration” category, choose “Assessment Pre-advising.”
- Focus 2 offers you several free assessments to help you explore majors and careers.
- Register or Login here.
- How Students Create Accounts:
- New users simply click on the REGISTER button to be brought to your self-registration page.
- To complete the form, new users will be required to enter an ACCESS CODE. The ACCESS CODE for Butler University is: lsbcareers
- All new users need to fill out the requested information on the registration form and create their own unique username and password. Once they submit the form, a Focus 2 account will be activated for them and they will be brought directly into the system. Each time they return to use Focus 2, they simply enter their username and password on the login page.
- Please schedule an appointment with one of our career advisors any time through Navigate, Butler’s online advising portal.
- Our advisors provide guidance primarily in the following areas: general career, internship, job, gap year, graduate school, and service.
- Your work together may include: building and critiquing cover letters, assessments, resumes, CVs, internship and job search strategies, networking resources and tips, practice interviews, and designing a meaningful life.
CaPS is pleased to offer you a free training system that features a new and innovative way to help you prepare more effectively for a job interview. Big Interview is an online system that combines training AND practice to help improve your interview technique and build your confidence.
Big Interview offers a variety of tools including:
- Mock interview practice and recording tool
- Written and video curriculum covering the entire job search and interview process
- Mechanism for sharing videos externally/internally for feedback
- Admin dashboard with reporting
- Ability to customize/record questions and question sets
- Assignments and Customer Sets (create and assign custom questions/sets)
- Resume tool
HOW TO REGISTER
- Here’s how to set up your Big Interview account:
- STEP 1: Go to http://butler.biginterview.com/
- STEP 2: Enter your school email address, name, and password, and click “Create my Account”
- STEP 3: Log in and start using Big Interview.
- Here is a short video if you need help with registration
Discover how internships can help you.
“Because we live in an ever-evolving world, a diverse skill set is crucial.” — Julie Schrader ’01, MBA ’08
“My internship gave me the ability to gain diversity of experience. Butler prepared me through its liberal arts curriculum.” — Emily Flandermeyer ’19
The CaPS office is here to support you.
Our advisors provide guidance primarily in the following areas: general career, internship, job, gap year, graduate school, and service. Your work together may include: building and critiquing cover letters, assessments, resumes, CVs, internship and job search strategies, networking resources and tips, practice interviews, and designing a meaningful life.